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Kidding, I heart Rob too. And about that DC, I thought it was a little funny, but mostly because I enjoyed the phrase "It's Foreshadowing taking off her negligee!" But perhaps I would have enjoyed it more if it had made some sort of pun on the term "flash."

I enjoyed today's Dinosaur Comics (thanks for reminding me to read it, by the way). To me it does random humor right, where that baseball xkcd failed at absurd humor. The play on words in panel 5, combined with the completely bonkers example it pertains to, and Utahraptor's reaction... and then T-Rex just keeps going, clearly so swept up in his imagination that he's stopped caring if his audience (Utahraptor) understood what he was saying in the first place... well, I find it quite funny. I've always been a fan of using pointlessly weird analogies to explain mundane theories.

That and I love the dialogue in the alt text. I can almost feel the awkward tension between Shakespeare and T-Rex :-)

Look guys - we've been through a lot of hate together here at Carl's place. We've fought the Cuddlefish, mocked the forumites, and made witty banter in the comments section. However, no matter how stressful, how divisive, how violent things got, there was always one thing of which we could be sure:

What the hell is this?

Welcome. This is a website called XKCD SUCKS which is about the webcomic xkcd and why we think it sucks. My name is Carl and I used to write about it all the time, then I stopped because I went insane, and now other people write about it all the time. I forget their names. The posts still seem to be coming regularly, but many of the structural elements - like all the stuff in this lefthand pane - are a bit outdated. What can I say? Insane, etc.

I started this site because it had been clear to me for a while that xkcd is no longer a great webcomic (though it once was). Alas, many of its fans are too caught up in the faux-nerd culture that xkcd is a part of, and can't bring themselves to admit that the comic, at this point, is terrible. While I still like a new comic on occasion, I feel that more and more of them need the Iron Finger of Mockery knowingly pointed at them. This used to be called "XKCD: Overrated", but then it fell from just being overrated to being just horrible. Thus, xkcd sucks.

Here is a comic about me that Ann made. It is my favorite thing in the world.

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